If you are a Twitter fanatic then you must have heard about nifty Twitter gadget for Gmail. The small nifty app was able to provide tweets with a small interval but was lacking many great features. Twitter is currently accessed by many through desktop apps and also through some e-mail notification apps.
Now enter another Twitter gadget for Gmail which lets you change status, follow people, look at bio, forward tweets to Gmail contacts etc all in ajax-ify way inside Gmail. This gadget resides in your Gmail page and thus could be a very productive tool for people glaring whole day at their mailboxes and Twitter.
How to use Twitter Gadget:
- Visits Settings —> Gadgets in Gmail
- Under Gadgets column enter the below given address into ‘Add a gadget by its URL:’ form:
https://twittergadget.appspot.com/gadget-gmail.xml
- Now click on the appeared twitter box on the left.It would re-direct you to the twitter authentication page,approve the app and refresh the Gmail page to start using the app.
To start using the app click on twitter button on the left it would reload a Tab with full page view in Gmail window itself.
Main Features of the App:
- Twitter Users can use power tools like reply, re-tweet, favorites feature inline within the Gmail Page.
- Twitter users can also view the conversations, bio, and all the updates of a user by just clicking the Twitter usernames.
- Users can also follow-unfollow other Twitterers.
- It also supports multiple twitter accounts.
- It has Twitter search inbuilt with an option to save the search. It also allows inline translation of tweets.
Check out this Screencast Below:
Just checked it out and I need to say it’s truely awesome!
Its really a nice gadget.
I am waiting for the one which allows me to login to multiple accounts at same time.
Any such tool available?
For those who don’t have gadgets enabled yet, you can do so in Settings —> Labs. It should be the last item in the list. Happy Tweeting!
@ puneet
This Twitter gadget has feature to handle multiple twitter accounts.To enable that click on ‘reconnect’ in left hand side twitter box and follow the same procedure to connect other accounts.
To access your multiple twitter accounts scroll down the name field in home page(in gmail) of twitter gadget.
This was an awesome notification about a really nice implementation. Now if only they had numbers next to home, @user etc to show how many new items since it was last accessed…
Hmm, Safari 4.0.3 (5531.9) on Leopard gives ‘Your session is expired, please reload Gmail.’ I have done this, logged out/in, emptied the cache, and restarted the browser. Also, a Fluid Gmail app shows the same behavior (obviously, but noted). Works great in Firefox 3.5.2.
@joshrabinowitz you should enable accept cookies for your browser to use this gadget in Gmail.
You can also post to twitter using Gtalk. Add twitter@askme.im to your contacts and send your status update to it as a chat message.
@ c9 thanx for addition, I forgot to add that point.
@Mahesh There are many such services like ping.fm and even digsby messenger.